Today I went to the library to get some books for our podcast, The Moh Joh Show! Some of the books I got include Son of the Mob, an Artemis Fowl book, and a book called Quantum Profecy. If you're reading this and have some books you'd like to recommend to us for our book review, please feel free to do so!!

Yesterday, we had the computers test for Excel. Unfortunately, I studied all of the complicated formulas and did not focus much on the simple ones. I hope I did alright!

Today, I studied for our Excel test tomorrow. There are a couple of things you should know abut Excel: First of all, Excel is created byBill Gates. The worksheet is sorted out by columns which use letters/roman numerals (vertical) and rows (horizontal) whihc use numbers. The cells are designated by the letter first, and then the number (for example cell A2). There are three types of information you can put into a cell: a number valule (contsant), a text string (to help us remember things), and formulas (whihc do the math for us). There are four basic equations you can do with Excel: multiplication (*), division (/), addition (+), subtraction (-), as well as others. Remeber that all equations must begin with an equal sign. Some of the other mathematical formulas include sum, average, count, payment, countA, minimum, maximum, and IF. If is used to compare certain number values with others, suach as if the value in A5 was greater than 100, the answer would either be "yes" or "no". This is especially usefull when you want to find out say the students how goton the honor roll for term 1. Another thing you should know is the fill option. Click on a cell's right, bottom corner until you see the cross and drag it down or across. You can edit what happens here by pressing fill series to get the next logical balue in the next cell, or copy cells for the same cell over and over again.

Yesterday, I made my formula workbook. The things I covered included addition, subtraction, division, multiplication, average, sum, minimum, maximum, and count. I'm positive I know more about Excel now after completing this assignment.

Phew!! Boy am I tired! Today I finished editting the Moh Joh Show podcast episode one. It was really hard tring find music and special effects that were laegal to use, but I did find them in the end. It took a good two or more hours of my time going back and forth, and perfecting it. Still I think that the music is a bit too loud. Oh well, I guess I'll have to wait for the comments/crictism to come in.

Yesterday, John came to my house. We made our podcast, and it took us roughly 2 hours. I think it was pretty funny and good for our first one. John was the happy-go-lucky host, while I was the criticizing type. We reviewed the book the Da Vinci Code. It will be up pretty soon;we just have to edit it. If you're interested in listening to it, or any other podcasts, go to the woodbine wiki and look for The Moh Joh show.

Last class, we talked about microsoft excel. You can do a lot of neat things with excel. You can input formulas (which you can later apply to other boxes in your document), so that you do not have todo a lot of math. You can put in values (numbers) or you can put in words. We're still learning more about Excel, so I'm sure I'll get to know more tomorrow.

Today I also put advertisements on all of the pages I created on our woodbine wiki. Hopefully, it will get more people informed about our podcast-to-be. The first book we'll be reviewing will be called Da Vainchi Code.

I downloaded Audacity and the Lame file that goes with it. I also downloaded Audacity extra to put in more special features on the software. Now all I have to do is figure out how to put a drum roll on the beginning of the podcast.

We also learned about closed and open sources. Closed sources, such as Microsoft, have their encoding closed so we cannot dupplicate their software without purchasing it. Open sources have their encoding available and thus you can change the program itself. Sourceforget.net is a great place to get open sourced programs/software.

Today, I worked on advertisments to put on our class wiki for our podcasts. I worked for two hours straight and I finally completed 5 advertisements. I also downloaded Audacity and the Lame file from Sourceforge.net. Tomorrow, I will go early to the library and work on our podcasts with John. I can't wait to make my first podcast episode!!!

Last BTT01 class, we talked about podcasts and how their are different from recorded videos. A podcast is something that is episodic and gets updates every one or two weeks. I watched The Minute on CricInfo, and me and John chose a book review theme for our own podcast. I got some great ideas and I think that this will be a fun project.

Today was Take Our Kids To Work Day!!! I got to go to George Brown college and had a great time there. I got to shadow around the Adminstrative Assistant in the morning, who was very nice and welcoming. She provided me with candy and a variety of drinks, and gave me a brief tour of the campus building. Afterwards, we had a pizza lunch (free thanks to George Brown) and a presentation not much afterwards. After that, we got started on our scavenger hunt and our team won!!! Next, we played a changed form of bingo and jeopardy, and got to play basketball of the rest of the time. I loved this trip because I had a great time, everyone was really helpful and nice, and because I recieved a lot of free stuff from everyone (gummy candy, a calendar, a USB key, a pen, a thermus, a strap bag, and lots more). Overall, I think it was a great trip and George Brown for me has really impressed me.

Today we didn't get to do much in BTT. We had an assembly, and lost about a good 30 minutes of our work period. Anyway, I handed in my scary story powerpoint. Before handing it in, I added some sound into the slides to liven them up a little. Even though I didn't get much time to put in sounds, I managed to. My only concern is if they will go with my slides and if everything flow.

Last BTT01 class, we learned how to hyperlink pages in our own powerpoint presentation to create a scary story presentation for Halloween. I decided to choose an Egyptian/Mummy theme for my presentation. I worked on it for a few days, and it is now complete. I can't wait to see the other spooky storys, because they all look very interesting.